Indians Rebellion Research Paper

During 1765 there were many conflicts that played a huge role in the English North America. Most of which involved all the indians. All of them changed American history in some sort of a way. Two of many major events that happened in this time where King Phillips War, and also in Virginia, Bacons Rebellion. King Phillips War ended any relations between the indians and the New England colonists. While Bacons rebellion was him using poor frontier farmers for British Rule. Those are two major conflicts of this time but there are many more. The Indians and colonist had major conflicts from the beginning. They where constantly fighting about something. Two major things that caused them to fight were because the colonists tried to convert them to Christianity. Also because the colonists tried expanding their colonies into indian territory. This all lead into one of the major things I told you about King Phillips War. Many Indian tribes got tired …show more content…
Nathaniel Bacon was a colonists who owned a plantation in Jamestown. Bacon got upset that Governor William Berkeley wasn't doing anything about the attack from the indians. So he took it into his own hands a gathered up 500 men to fight the indians. Which lead to Berkeley calling him a rebel or a traitor. Berkeley did this until Bacon peacefully to his seat in the House of Burgesses. But Bacon still held a grudge on Berkeley for all his wrong doings. Which include not doing anything about the attacks from the indians, and also for high taxes and poor trade with the British. But this all came to an end when Berkeley got his chair back. But Bacon managed to flee before they could do anything to him. The consciences where slavery growing dramatically. But also the Virginia elite where worried that the poor black and white men that where under Bacon would rise. So they made it known that blacks where inferior to